hill. house investigators set to interview a key hunter biden associate who you might recognize. good morning, everybody. that s the tease from last week if you were watching. bill hemmer live in new york. hello, nice to sigh. nice red, i see you. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. great to be with you as always. impeachment investigators sit down with hunter biden s close friend kevin morris as questions swirl about his financial relationship with the president s son. bill: who is kevin morris? an entertainment lawyer and author who first met hunter biden at a political fundraiser in 2019. morris took on the role of legal aide advising hunter on his paternity and child support lawsuits. most importantly morris was hunter s bankrolling paying off the president s son s debt with the i.r.s. and a business partner in a chinese controlled company and now funding a documentary titled redemption story. dana: let s go to david spunt live on capitol hill wi
interesting. walking through the halls of congress today, i ve seen everybody bring in their grandmother, college best friend, roommate. everybody came in to see their friend, cousin, whom ever gets worn into congress. as we have gone through this today, the they will not see them because they can t swear in any members. so you have a room off of the house floor, the rayburn room sam rayburn into a post 340s, 50s, 60s never had a problem for the ceremonial photo up where each new member comes in with their family and stand next to the speaker and hold up their hand and reenact the swearing and that they do on the house floor. that is all set up to happen. it is probably not going to happen today and at this rate, it might be several days from now until they can work this out. all of these people in the capital here to see their member get sworn in and take photographs with the speaker, you don t have a speaker thoughts, no photo up appearance be to chad to come at this point
right now ins suspended animatin and waiting to see the total read by cheryl johnson. she is the democratic work of the house. she is in charge of the house until they get a speaker. as i said, we will see a lot over the next couple of days if they don t get a speaker. our unofficial telly hakeem jeffries, 203 for kevin mccarthy, 104 andy biggs, nine total photo for somebody else including jim jordan. jim thanks republican of indiana got one lee zeldin from long island who ran for governor of new york got one. byron donalds republican from florida. what is unclear because we have not been into this parliamentary posture and a sentry is do they have another folk? the statute says they were supposed to vote immediately because the highest precedent in the house of representatives right now is to figure out who your speaker is because you can t do anything.
we will see in real time as the second vote continues. will there be and i guess this is the question i was putting to you before they gaveled back in, do more members fold and support mccarthy which could make the assumption that would be the case? or if this drags on and goes in to perhaps third and fourth ballot, do members get annoyed and fear what that means for the republican agenda going forward and change their vote, those originally cast for mccarthy? what 1856 didn t have was a constant coverage of the vote. and a constant upset republican voting group of americans who say, what the heck is going on on capitol hill? a photo for change and how you can t get your house in order. the frustration will build and i don t know how many ballots it will go but already for votes for others.
0 within the party. and people who are trying to sort of determine where the whole thing goes from here and which side they are on. it is messy, choppy, and out the midterm election i think a lot of republicans thought they were going to get. now you see this sort of outgrowth of that that is continuing to be a very messy process in the house right now. john: so, we have 19 people, martha, voted for someone other than mccarthy. biggs got the lion s share of that. i wouldn t think that all of those 19 are hard nos and we heard hard yeses but not all hard-nosed. but when you take a look at what andy biggs is saying, it doesn t look like in the amount of force trading can placate and bring him over to the maccarthy si side. mccarthy is never going to get speaker. that is right. it was interesting what happened over the weekend, john. they got this huge recession for maccarthy that only five people can force a revote of the speakership. so at any time they would be able to hold his f